With their father away most of the time advocating independence for the American colonies, the children of Patrick Henry try to raise themselves, manage the family plantation, and care for their mentally ill mother.

From his 1776 Pennsylvania homestead, thirteen-year-old Samuel, who is a highly-skilled woodsman, sets out toward New York City to rescue his parents from the band of British soldiers and Indians who kidnapped them after slaughtering most of their community. Includes historical notes.

Teenage runaway slaves with superhuman powers, a Hessian giant, the most evil slave owners imaginable, and Benjamin Franklin: this story of the Revolution blends fact and fantasy in an imaginative reinterpretation of a critical time in American history.

Fourteen-year-old Rachel Marsh, an indentured servant in the Boston household of John and Abigail Adams, is caught up in the colonists' unrest that eventually escalates into the massacre of March 5, 1770.

By Lavender, William
Fourteen-year-old Jane Prentice, orphaned daughter of an English earl,
arrives in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1776 to find her family and
her loyalties divided over the question of American independence.

By Elliott, Laura
Follows the life of thirteen-year-old Nathaniel Dunn, from
May 1774 to December 1775, as he serves his indentureship with a music
teacher in Williamsburg, Virginia, and witnesses the growing rift
between patriots and loyalists, culminating in the American Revolution.

By Draper, Sharon
Two fifteen-year-old girls--one a slave and the other an indentured
servant--escape their Carolina plantation and try to make their way to
Fort Moses, Florida, a Spanish colony that gives sanctuary to slaves.